Ice box cake and the like



Feb. 13, 1934. w JONES 1,946,495

ICE BOX CAKE AND THE LIKE Filed NOV. 4, 1931 v min m I Elli, -11" Patented Feb. 13, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ICE BOX CAKE AND THE LIKE W. Bartlett Jones, Chicago, Ill.

Application November 4,

. 6 Claims.

The present invention relates to food forms, and especially to foods like crackers, cookies and the compositions known as ice-box cakes or cookies. It has special reference to forms which can be readily packaged for sale to a customer for assembly into a built up article of food, such as an attractive dessert.

Ice box cakes are sold in different forms, particularly disks, two of which may be used with a filling after being chilled or modified, in character, as being softened, by prolonged maintaining in a cool damp place.

The present invention aims to produce cooperative units which may be packaged without waste sembled to provide a well or recess for a filling material.

One object of the invention is to produce forms which are long and narrow, so as to have a crosssection adapting the assembly to be eaten endwise, and to provide a recess for a filling of tapered form so that the proportion of filling, to cake or cookie base, will vary progressively as the assembly is eaten endwise.

Another object is to provide a tart-like structure having a ring-like section on a deck or base section which deck section is an assembly capable of fitting into the well of the ring-like section.

Various other and ancillary objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following descriptions of the exemplary embodiments shown in the accompanying drawing in which:

35' Fig. 1 illustrates an elongated form compris ing a deck layer and a well-forming layer.

Fig. 2 illustrates the units necessary to make two forms like Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 represents one method of stacking the units of Fig. 2 for packaging.

Fig. 4 represents a modified form of packaged units capable of making a modified form of the structure of Fig. 1, wherein the deck layer comprises a plurality of parts.

Fig. 5 represents the units which may be used in making a structure shown in Fig. '7.

Fig. 6 represents the units of Fig. 5 in assembled form for a package.

Fig. '7 represents the units of Fig. 5 in assembled form for serving.

The forms shown in the drawing are merely exemplary of two difierent ways in which the invention may be embodied. It is, of course, to be understood that numerous changes and mod- 55 lfications may be made without departing from of space in the package and which may be as-v 1931. Serial No. 572,930

the spirit and scope of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

Reference is made to my copending application Serial No. 152,085, filed December 2, 1926,.now Patent No. 1,855,145 for explanation of the particular advantages of an elongated form which has a cross-section adapting it to be eaten endwise in successive bites and which contains at least two different kinds of food. materials which change in proportion in successive bites of the 5 article. Fig. '1 represents an article of this invention which involves such a principle of structure to relate the food materials. In order to enable such a structure to be made in the home, or the like, where a choice of filling material may be made, I provide cookie forms of saleable character which can be packaged tightly in neat packages without looseness of small parts in the package, and without voids in the package. Thus economic waste of space is avoided and the danger 5 of breaking and crumbling is avoided when packages are handled.

In order to attain these objects with the form of Fig. 1, two ultimate units present a packageable combination. Each unit comprises a base or deck section 10 of elongated form about onequarter inch thick and about one inch or so in width. The base may be an integral piece or may be built;up of two similar pieces end to end.

On the base or deck 10 I place socalled fence sec- 8 tions which is assembled form, provide a well or recess for a filling, such as creams, ices, jellies, fruits, nuts and the like. The preferred fence sections are corner pieces in the form of rightangle triangles 11, 12, 13 and 14, which form a diamond shaped well 15. The triangles are each one-eighth of the area of the deck section so that eight of them may be packed into a unit area 16 (Fig. 2) to be held between the deck sections 1'7 and 18 into a three layer package as shown 9 in Fig. 3. If the, deck section 10 is made in two parts the four triangles 11, 12, 13 and 14 may be packaged between the two deck sections 1'7 and 17", as shown in Fig. 4.

Departing from the embodiment which employs the invention of my Patent No. 1,855,145, the principles of the present invention are illustrated by'another form (Fig. '7). A fence-section 20 of rectangular form is provided with a rectangular well 221 for filling. A substantial thickness is preferred for the reason that the well 21 is used in the packaged condition to house a [plurality of parts which may be assembled into a base section of total area greater than the area of the well. I prefer two sections 22 and 23 of area substantially equal to the area of the well, but scant, in order to be housed within the well. The thickness of each is preferably just about half the thickness of the ring-like or fence section 20.

I prefer the two base sections 22 and 23 to be capable of assembly into an area coincident with the outer edges of the fence section. Where a uniform thickness of fence or well walls 24 is provided and two base sections are employed, the base sections must be in length and width 6 and 4 times, respectively the thickness of the wall 24. The dimensions of the frame section 20 are 8 and 6 times the thickness of the wall 24.

It is to be noted particularly that in the form of Fig. 4 the area of the fence layer is one-half the area of the deck layer. In the formof Fig. 7 the same relation holds true. This makes it possible for the superimposed layers of the edible assembly to be packaged without waste of space in the packaged assembly, in spite of the different manner in which the layer parts are assembled into the packaged assembly.

Various other changes may be made, such as changing the shape, size, iproportions and number of parts in the assembly. Such changes are considered to fall within the scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. An edible structure provided in parts capable of assembly into a combination providing a Well, said parts including a deck layer and a well-forming or fence layer of equal perimetric form, one of said layers containing double parts capable of being piled to present half the area, the area of the fence layer being one-half the area of the deck layer.

2. An edible structure provided in parts capable of assembly into a combination providing a well, said Yparts consisting of two similar rectangular sections adapted to be placed with edges together to form a deck layer, and four similar right triangles each as long as the section and half as Wide.

3. An edible structure provided in parts capable of assembly into a combination providing a well, said parts consisting of a rectangular section adapted for use as a deck layer, and four right triangles each half as long and half as wide as said section.

4. An edible structure provided in parts capable of assembly into a combination providing a well,-said parts consisting of a plurality of similar rectangular sections adapted to be placed with edges together to form a deck layer, and a fence layer having an opening adapted to house said sections when piled and adapted to fit onto said deck layer with coincident edges.

5. An edible structure provided in parts capable ofassembly into a combination providing a well, said parts consistingof a frame membar with dimensions 8 by 6 times the marginal width and two rectangular sections in dimensions 4x6 times said marginal width, said frame having a thickness twice the thickness of each section whereby the piled sections fit into the frame.

6. An edible structure provided in parts capable of assembly into a combination, said parts consisting of a rectangular base and four triangles, each having an area one-eighth of the base area, and corresponding to one corner of the base from the middle points of the sides of the base. 7

W. BARTLETT JONES. 

